New Delhi/IBNS, Feb. 27 -- India on Thursday called Pakistan a "failed state" which "survives on international handouts" in a scathing attack on its hostile neighbour amid the decades-old cross-border tension.

India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Kshitij Tyagi, said this during the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Tyagi lashed out at Pakistan over its claims of human rights violation in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the two union territories in India.

The Modi government in 2019 took the historic step in abrogating Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

"Instead of its unhealthy obsession with India, Paki...